Difference between instance and object

Answer 1

Object - When there is an value.

int[] arr={1,2,3};

Instance - when there is a declaration for class with 'new'.

String arr=new String("test");

A obj2 = new A(); //this is the object instance with occupy memory for this..

For user defined classes, object and instances are same.

Answer 2

an object (of that class). The class itself is like a blueprint of a style of house, an acutual house built from that blueprint is an instance of that perticular style. When you have 2 identical house built side by side, physically they are the same, but on 2 different locations (in computer term, 2 different memory addresses)

Answer 3

A typical "example".

For instance, the computer your are using to view this answer is just an instance of (the class Personal Computer), there maybe an "identical" setup (software and hardware components) out there as yours, yet, the "identification tag" (in some object-oriented languages it's called Object Identity) are different.

Another way to look at this: Class provides the abstraction, the instance of that class provides the realization of that abstraction. A human is an abstraction, and you are a realization of a human (an instance of human, but not the human class itself), a typical example of a human.

Answer 4

An instance is the occurrence of anything, an example put forward, an urgency in speech or action. An object is a thing that is visible or tangible

Answer 5

You define a class, then you create objects based on the class. This makes the class the "template" for the objects; while the individual objects are "instances" of the class.

Answer 6

An Object